Corey Legge - Some Days (2020)

Some Days, the second album Bega-born, Wollongong-based singer-songwriter from Corey Legge, poses a problem. A good problem, but a perplexing one for a person who’s trying to write about the album. So let’s just get it out of the way: the title song is so extraordinarily good that it takes on a life and identity of its own, almost to the point that the rest of the album should be considered separate to it. Because the fact of the matter is that the rest of the album is very, very good. It’s just that ‘Some Days’ is one of those songs that, when heard for the first time, is immediately recognisable as something you’re going to keep listening to over and over for years to come. It would eclipse most songs that happen to come near it, with its perfect chorus – the run of notes in the repeat of the words ‘some days’, the construction of the lines ‘some days I thought I was nothing/but I meant everything to you’ that beautifully captures the nature of the child-parent relationship – and Legge’s resistance to making the verses sound as epic, so there’s tonal balance throughout the song musically, melodically and lyrically.